Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 20150311 Fiqh Class.mp4

Hamzah Wald Maqbul
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The speaker discusses the impact of Islam's actions on one's ability to go astray and receive thanks from Allah. They emphasize the importance of protecting one's ego and not denying one's sin, protecting one's spirituality and avoiding evil behavior, and praying for oneself and not criticizing others. The importance of praying for oneself and not criticizing others is emphasized, as it is a way for people to grow in connections and connections with Allah. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of remembering that Islam is a way for people to grow in connections and connections with Allah.

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			So there are 2
		
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			concepts.
		
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			There are 2 concepts with regards to Qadr
		
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			that a person should remember and think about.
		
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			One is called Tawhid, and the other is
		
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			called or.
		
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			So it's part of our aqidah that Allah
		
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			allows whoever he wishes to to go astray.
		
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			And that
		
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			process of allowing someone to go astray is.
		
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			And he does so by his justice,
		
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			Meaning nobody is allowed to go astray except
		
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			for
		
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			through Allah's
		
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			justice that that person be allowed to go
		
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			astray.
		
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			Now what does this mean through Allah justice?
		
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			Ultimately
		
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			to reduce all the long discussions and all
		
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			of the long
		
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			research
		
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			and speculation
		
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			into the issue.
		
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			Ultimately,
		
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			it boils down to the fact that we
		
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			discussed before that Allah made everyone from
		
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			nothing.
		
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			Here come come sit here. There's chairs over
		
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			your tongue.
		
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			Allah
		
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			made everyone from nothing.
		
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			Here, I'll get have this up. Let me
		
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			give you my key the keys to the
		
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			office. You can go grab a chair from
		
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			the office.
		
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			Take this one more. No. Just you can
		
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			sit next to me. It's okay.
		
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			It comes again back to the issue that
		
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			Allah
		
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			He created everything from nothing, so his ownership
		
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			over everything is complete.
		
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			He can do whatever he wishes to with
		
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			his property.
		
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			And so if Allah
		
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			allows a person to go astray,
		
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			this is his justice. This is something people
		
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			have these kind of bizarre types of hang
		
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			ups.
		
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			They say, oh,
		
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			how about, you know, Jim from class?
		
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			He's such a good person. He's a wonderful
		
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			person. He's nice to everybody, and he's good
		
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			to his parents. And he goes to church,
		
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			and he believes in God. And he, you
		
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			know, he doesn't even believe in the trinity,
		
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			and he, you know, gives all of his
		
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			money and charity,
		
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			and he's so helpful and blah blah blah.
		
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			Are you telling me if he knows about
		
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			Islam and he doesn't accept it, that he's
		
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			going to jahanam forever?
		
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			And we say what? It's not our job,
		
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			it's not our duty, nor is it our
		
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			privilege or right to pass judgment over individuals.
		
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			What happens with a person? Who they are?
		
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			Who's good? Who's
		
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			bad? You don't even have the ability to
		
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			make that decision.
		
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			Who's a good person and who's a bad
		
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			person? Oh, Jim's such a good person. Why
		
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			is he going to jam them? The first
		
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			part is that we realize that we don't
		
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			even have the ability to make that much
		
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			of a decision, who's a good person or
		
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			a bad person.
		
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			Beyond that, the the judgment of who's going
		
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			to jahannam and who's going to jannah,
		
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			we vouchsafe that to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			With the exception of what? The exception that
		
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			we know that Allah says that he will
		
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			not forgive anybody
		
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			who dies on shirk, and he will not
		
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			forgive anybody who dies on kuvar. Who those
		
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			people are, Allah knows
		
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			best, so we don't have to. We're not
		
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			neither is there any benefit in us doing
		
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			so, nor are we allowed to, nor are
		
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			we supposed to talk about Jim or other
		
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			individuals
		
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			like him or unlike him. Rather, we say
		
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			whoever dies on Kufr or whoever dies on
		
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			Shirk, Allah Ta'ala himself
		
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			informed us in his book that those people
		
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			he won't forgive them. And his word is
		
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			truth. His word is and that's it.
		
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			Now the next hang up that people have
		
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			is that, you know, why did they get
		
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			to the point where they're asking these questions
		
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			about Jim or about people like that? The
		
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			way they got to that point is that
		
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			they had a problem in there,
		
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			and they're aqidah.
		
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			And that problem was a, that that either
		
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			they thought that they knew more than Allah
		
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			knows
		
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			or they thought that they have more mercy
		
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			than Allah
		
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			or they thought that they have more justice
		
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			than Allah
		
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			And this is again an aqidah problem because
		
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			we said that justice is what Allah defines
		
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			it as.
		
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			Knowledge
		
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			completely belongs to him. It doesn't belong to
		
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			you and I. And it is our belief
		
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			that Allah is more merciful to all of
		
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			his creation
		
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			than one's own mother is.
		
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			After that, whoever Allah chooses to to to
		
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			punish
		
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			or whoever Allah chooses to
		
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			burn in the fire, or whoever Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala doesn't accept from. This is Allah
		
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			decision
		
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			For you to think somehow in the middle
		
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			that you have more mercy than that than
		
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			than Allah.
		
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			This is this is a hang up of
		
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			our own.
		
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			There's many people have hang ups with the
		
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			deen. They say, I can't believe
		
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			so many people are going to be punished
		
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			in the hellfire. This is your own hang
		
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			up. This is my own hang up. This
		
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			is not something that has to do with
		
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			this is something to do with that has
		
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			to do with the Islam that that the
		
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			Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam taught us.
		
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			Brother Sayid Muhammad SAW
		
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			had
		
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			more
		
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			hope in the mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala than anybody else, and he also understood
		
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			that Allah
		
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			has more power over his creation. He understood
		
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			this more than anyone else understood it. So
		
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			what do we say? We say that a
		
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			person who is sent to the hellfire ultimately
		
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			ultimately Allah has the right to send whoever
		
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			to the hellfire
		
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			because that's his right with his entire creation.
		
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			No doubt that the one who he sends
		
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			to the hellfire
		
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			did something to deserve it. No doubt that
		
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			that person did something to deserve it, but
		
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			whatever they did to deserve it, sometimes it's
		
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			so obscure
		
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			from the eyes of an external observer.
		
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			Someone from the outside won't know what that
		
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			is.
		
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			That people may grapple with it and have
		
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			a hard time. And what we have to
		
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			remind ourselves is what? Is that Allah
		
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			will not send somebody down the path to
		
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			the fire except for with a good reason.
		
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			He knows better than us. And even if
		
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			we don't see a reason or even if
		
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			whatever reason is there, we couldn't even imagine
		
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			that there could be such a reason that
		
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			that person deserves something. We should know at
		
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			the at the end of all of it
		
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			that Allah has the right to punish anybody.
		
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			He created
		
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			because he's the one who created them. So
		
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			any punishment that any person gets is from
		
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			the of Allah.
		
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			You have no blessing except for from Allah.
		
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			What's further than that? Even your good deeds
		
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			are a favor from Allah.
		
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			Now tell me if somebody gives gives a
		
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			$1,000,000,000
		
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			in charity. You have these crazy Bill Gates
		
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			and,
		
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			Shun Ho, this,
		
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			the Facebook guy and
		
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			Warren Buffett and all these people. They're giving
		
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			1,000,000,000 of dollars in charity,
		
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			albeit over a long period of time, and
		
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			the numbers massage certain ways in order to
		
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			make it not as impressive at the end
		
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			of it. But it's still a lot more
		
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			than you and I will give with so
		
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			much sincerity.
		
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			Right?
		
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			A person might might, you know, wonder, oh,
		
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			that's, you know, that person, surely, there should
		
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			be no reason that person be punished for
		
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			anything.
		
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			The fact of the matter is that even
		
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			the
		
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			the fact that Allah gave them so much.
		
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			Allah gave them so much so that they
		
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			could give in charity.
		
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			This is a in and of itself a
		
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			favor that Allah
		
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			gave them. So they all lie even more
		
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			than a normal person does. Because you and
		
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			I didn't receive that favor from Allah
		
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			ta'ala. And the fact that someone would receive
		
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			a favor like that from Allah
		
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			and then afterward choose not to thank him
		
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			for it. This is in fact a a
		
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			a sin worse than a sin that a
		
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			poor man could commit on on their own.
		
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			You have to understand that even the good
		
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			deeds a person does, the good deeds a
		
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			person does is a gift from Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala. It is sufficient for a person
		
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			that they should deserve to go to the
		
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			hellfire,
		
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			That they attribute all of their own good
		
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			deeds to themselves and not to Allah.
		
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			In fact, this is the condition, the of
		
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			Shaitan.
		
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			Shaitan, they they it comes in the
		
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			that there is not a mold there or
		
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			shib it in. There's not a hands breath
		
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			worth of place in the heavens or in
		
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			the earth except for he made to Allah.
		
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			The the the student of the angels that
		
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			he sought knowledge from all of the angels.
		
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			He was a student
		
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			for 1000 of years. He studied the the
		
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			sacred knowledge and studied about this this this
		
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			a creation of Allah
		
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			and studied Allah about Allah
		
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			about spiritual matters. He did all of these
		
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			things only in the end to attribute his
		
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			righteousness to himself
		
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			and not to attribute it to Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala and it made him. It made
		
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			him a.
		
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			Shaitan,
		
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			the most cursed. So a person should never
		
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			wonder why is a person
		
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			going to be punished in the hellfire despite
		
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			their good deeds.
		
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			If they're in Kufr, if a person is
		
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			in Kufr, that means that even their good
		
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			deeds become a bad deed or an affront
		
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			to
		
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			Allah because they're not showing to Allah for
		
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			what they had. So Allah
		
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			whoever he sends to the fire. It's our
		
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			that we that he sends that person
		
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			to the fire through his justice.
		
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			This
		
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			this process of and what is this?
		
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			We don't say Allah forces a person, okay,
		
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			now you commit zina, you commit kufra, you
		
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			commit you do all of these sins, and
		
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			the person says, I don't want to do
		
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			it, but they start doing it anyway.
		
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			Rather, it's more akin to, like, for example,
		
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			you have you have you have a a
		
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			a a,
		
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			you know, 2 people
		
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			that are walking right next to each other.
		
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			Right? And you know the person walking next
		
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			to you, and you know them very well,
		
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			and you're talking to them, and you see
		
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			in front of them, there's, like, an uncovered
		
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			manhole. You know, sewer manholes, and there's uncovered
		
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			manhole. And you see that your friend is
		
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			walking straight to the manhole,
		
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			and you have an idea in your head
		
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			that that friend doesn't know that that manhole
		
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			is there and uncovered,
		
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			and you could say something to him,
		
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			but you decide not to. And lo and
		
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			behold, after, you know, like 30 seconds, your
		
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			French falls into the manhole and disappears.
		
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			This is what is indeed. The language of
		
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			the Arabs,
		
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			is to leave, leave, leave, leave your friend
		
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			high and dry. Right? To leave them high
		
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			and dry, not to not to help them
		
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			out when they need help. And so this
		
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			is the idea with everybody. That all of
		
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			the creation, we need help from Allah
		
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			constantly.
		
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			Do you ever wonder there's a hadith, all
		
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			these hadith of the prophet
		
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			regarding the angels of mercy that surround a
		
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			person
		
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			and that a dog if there's a dog
		
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			in the house, the angels of mercy will
		
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			not enter into the house or if there
		
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			are pictures up in the house, pictures of
		
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			animate life, the angels of mercy will not
		
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			enter into that house. What does that mean?
		
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			What are those angels? What's the point of
		
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			those angels? Right? There are all sorts of
		
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			competing effects that pull on a person's heart
		
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			and on a person's
		
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			from the unseen.
		
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			And so if you're in a good place,
		
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			then good effects come. You come to the
		
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			Masjid
		
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			and good thoughts come. By and large, I'm
		
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			going to read salat.
		
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			I'm going, I would love to read the
		
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			Quran. I would love to do something good.
		
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			I would love to make Tawba etcetera. Maybe
		
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			some bad thoughts come because it's you and
		
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			I, whatever we have with us, we bring
		
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			it with us into the masjid as well.
		
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			But by and larger person is protected from
		
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			the full brunt of the the attack of
		
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			Shaitan when they come into a a good
		
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			place, when a in a place with good
		
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			effects.
		
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			Is what? Imagine
		
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			Allah says, fine. You're you did all these
		
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			good things on your own. Go fend for
		
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			yourself.
		
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			So a person, all the protections around their
		
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			heart are removed. Like the lampshade is removed
		
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			from a candle. You know what a candle
		
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			is. Right? The candle is something
		
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			a little bit of wind comes, it'll blow
		
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			it out.
		
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			You put a lampshade around the candle, why?
		
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			Right? One of the main reasons for putting
		
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			a lampshade around a candle is to protect
		
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			it from the wind blowing,
		
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			to protect it from the wind blowing. Now,
		
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			does lifting the shade off of
		
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			a candle, does it put the fire out?
		
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			No. It's the wind that puts it out.
		
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			But if you lift the shade, the candle's
		
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			all of a sudden in great peril.
		
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			That's what the the likeness is, the
		
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			is that
		
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			Allah
		
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			if he ever elects to remove the protection
		
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			of your iman that he provides you. Right?
		
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			If you ever elects to remove. Right? You're
		
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			in the security business.
		
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			You know, if if you're, you know, have,
		
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			like, armored car driving through the hood and
		
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			you have all these gunmen and whatnot, and
		
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			you're in the, like, the worst part of
		
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			the south side,
		
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			you know, and the person the driver says
		
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			something to annoy you. You know, it's a
		
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			different company or whatever. He says, I'm not
		
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			gonna pay you or whatever. He said, okay.
		
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			No problem. You and your boys just leave
		
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			and it's the driver that's just there unarmed.
		
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			And it says, whatever, armored car cash service.
		
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			And there's, like, 50 guys on the stoop
		
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			in front of you, and it's been a
		
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			red light for the last, you know, 3
		
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			minutes. What's gonna happen?
		
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			They're gonna get jacked.
		
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			Did you jack them? No. No. But what
		
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			you did is called well, obviously, you didn't
		
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			do it, but in the example,
		
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			right, in the example, that's what's called.
		
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			You say, okay. You wanna do this on
		
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			your own. You're big. You're not gonna pay
		
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			me. You're gonna talk back to me.
		
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			Go here. Go ahead. Deal with it on
		
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			your own. Right? So that's what
		
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			is. Whoever Allah does that to do that's
		
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			from his justice. It's completely within his rights
		
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			to do it and he won't do it
		
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			to a person and tell somebody,
		
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			somebody does something so stupid that they earn
		
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			that. They earn that. They say, okay, you
		
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			wanna do it on your own? You don't
		
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			need Allah. You don't need his help. Go
		
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			do it on your own now.
		
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			And whatever that happens, that's the justice of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			Let nobody blame Allah for it. Everybody who
		
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			the happens
		
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			to, it's their own fault.
		
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			And what are we supposed to learn from
		
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			this? This is not like, oh, looks stupid.
		
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			Sinners. They, you know, happen to them. They
		
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			deserve it. All of us should read into
		
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			this that this could happen to any of
		
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			us.
		
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			We should be very careful about what we
		
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			do. We should be very careful about what
		
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			we say.
		
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			Allah sees us. It's time for fajr. You
		
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			know, he sees when you hit the snooze
		
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			button instead of waking up, you know, or
		
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			when you turn it off instead of waking
		
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			up, he he sees that when it's time
		
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			to eat or drink something, when it's time
		
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			when someone gave you too much change back,
		
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			somebody gave you 50¢ too much back at
		
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			the store,
		
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			You could go give it back to the
		
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			person or they'll never notice. Or you could
		
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			sell Islam for 50¢,
		
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			and he sees you when you do that.
		
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			Every single thing a person does like that,
		
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			Allah
		
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			sees it. A person should always be afraid.
		
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			You Allah
		
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			that that that you Allah protect me from
		
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			ever being put in a position where I
		
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			get that I get that thing that you
		
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			remove the lampshade around my iman, that that
		
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			you removed the security of around my iman,
		
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			the the armor from my iman. Yeah, Allah,
		
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			don't ever do that to me because if
		
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			you leave me alone like that, I'll never
		
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			make it. It's a difficult world. It's a
		
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			tough life to get through.
		
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			Everyone should see that and remember that when
		
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			they do their actions and remember the actions
		
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			that they did in the past as well.
		
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			Whatever actions that they did in the past
		
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			as well. Seek forgiveness from Allah to Allah.
		
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			So many things a person thinks, oh, maybe
		
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			it wasn't even a sin.
		
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			Yeah. If you have to think about it,
		
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			then you should seek forgiveness for it.
		
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			If you have to think about it, then
		
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			you should seek forgiveness for it because the
		
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			fact that you had to think about it
		
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			alone means it's gonna look bad.
		
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			If a person sought forgiveness for something and
		
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			it turned out not to be a sin
		
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			on the day of judgement.
		
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			What's gonna happen? Is there any loss? No.
		
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			Toba is free.
		
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			There's no loss. In fact, it will be
		
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			written as a good deed for you. Because
		
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			of your fear of Allah,
		
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			even your good deeds, you sought forgiveness for
		
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			them. But on the flip side, what if
		
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			it is a sin, you
		
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			didn't repent from it? It could be a
		
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			problem over there. It could be an even
		
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			bigger problem over here. So people oftentimes people
		
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			there's the human psychology has all kind of
		
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			self defense mechanisms.
		
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			This is what the nafs is, the ego,
		
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			the nafs.
		
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			The nefs is there to make you always
		
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			feel that you're number 1. Everything you do
		
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			is wonderful. You know, the world, you know,
		
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			would love you if they could only understand
		
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			how wonderful and unique of a snowflake you
		
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			are and all of this other nonsense.
		
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			The nafs is there to tell you all
		
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			of those things. Right? Okay. So nobody can
		
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			function without an ego. If somebody has
		
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			no, right, they'll say,
		
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			I'm gonna pray. Oh, I don't think I'm
		
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			so weak. Even if I tried, I wouldn't
		
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			make it. You know? That's you're not supposed
		
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			to destroy the nuffs to that point. At
		
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			that point, you need to see a psychiatrist
		
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			and probably take some pills as well.
		
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			Right? But you're supposed to break the nuts
		
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			to the point where at least
		
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			at least when it tries to make justifications
		
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			for things that
		
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			have no justification
		
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			or justification for things that are doubtful,
		
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			that you should be able to pull it
		
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			off and say no. This is something that
		
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			was doubtful.
		
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			I seek
		
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			forgiveness from Allah, my lord, for every sin,
		
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			and I turn to him in repentance.
		
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			Why? Because any one of those things that
		
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			we don't think it's a big deal. The
		
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			the the psychiatric self defense mechanism a person
		
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			has
		
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			inside their head,
		
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			that's the self defense mechanism is very harmful
		
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			because it will oftentimes make our sins
		
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			seem to us like not a sin or
		
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			like not a big deal.
		
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			The believer doesn't defend himself. Why? Because
		
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			Allah is the one who defends the people
		
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			who believe.
		
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			You don't need to defend yourself. If you
		
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			did something bad, make Tawba. If you did
		
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			something good, make You didn't do something even
		
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			better than that.
		
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			Allah will defend you. Don't worry about it.
		
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			It's a hadith of the prophet
		
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			said one time a man entered into the
		
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			in the presence of the messenger of Allah
		
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			And he started to,
		
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			accuse him of things and accuse him of
		
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			things that that he was not guilty of.
		
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			And he sat patiently and listened and listened
		
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			and listened.
		
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			And, he he would, you know, he just
		
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			answered very politely.
		
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			And then after a while, that man's accusations
		
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			became so much, became so much that that
		
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			became upset with him and said, look, you're
		
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			out of line. This thing you said doesn't
		
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			make sense. This thing you said doesn't and
		
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			he started arguing back with him.
		
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			And and before when the Musaidah Abu Bakr
		
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			was patient, the prophet
		
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			was smiling. And when Seyda Abu Bakr began
		
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			to
		
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			defend against the accusations by countering this man,
		
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			the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, the smile
		
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			left his face and he got up and
		
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			left the room.
		
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			Later, he asked the Messenger of Allah sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wasallam,
		
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			why is it that when this man was
		
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			saying all these horrible things to me and
		
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			I was silent. You were smiling. And then
		
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			when I started to defend myself, you got
		
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			upset and left the room. He said
		
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			he said that when you what you didn't
		
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			see is that when you were patient and
		
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			listening to the abuse the man was giving
		
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			you. Allah sent an angel and the angel
		
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			was was was countering every single thing that
		
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			that man said.
		
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			And when you got upset and started to
		
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			yell back at the man, said the angel
		
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			left the room and Shaitan entered. And the
		
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			and Shaitan are not going to sit in
		
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			the same room at the same time.
		
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			Now, obviously, this doesn't mean, okay, somebody
		
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			accused you of murder and you have a
		
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			good alibi but I'm not going to defend
		
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			myself because you know, Allah defends the people
		
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			who believe. There's one thing that's defending yourself,
		
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			you know, giving the facts
		
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			and exonerating yourself from something wrong someone accused
		
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			you of. Then there's the other thing of
		
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			defending yourself as an, I'm a special snowflake.
		
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			How dare you accuse me of that? My
		
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			person.
		
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			My person, I'm so, like, special. How dare
		
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			you say that about me? Don't you know
		
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			how good I am?
		
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			Right? That's the thing you have to separate.
		
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			That second amount of stuff, there's no profit
		
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			in it. There's no benefit in it ever.
		
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			If somebody accuses your person and you're a
		
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			good person,
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will defend you in
		
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			this world and he will defend you in
		
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			the hereafter
		
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			and he will load your sins onto your
		
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			accuser and he will load his good deeds
		
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			onto you.
		
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			And it's all for free. You didn't have
		
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			to do anything to to earn it.
		
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			But if you're a bad person
		
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			and a person came and accused you and
		
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			abused you, then Allah will make it as
		
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			a kafarah,
		
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			as a expiation
		
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			for you in this world, that you paid
		
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			for your sin in this world through this.
		
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			And
		
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			your will make that sin forgiven.
		
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			So don't defend yourself as as a self.
		
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			Right? They said that, they said that you,
		
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			Yusuf Alaihi Islam.
		
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			What does he say? He says, he says,
		
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			when the the
		
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			about the the
		
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			the the the
		
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			uh-uh
		
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			wife of the Aziz
		
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			who
		
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			who tries to, assault him.
		
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			And it's found out that she's the one
		
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			who's guilty and he's not guilty.
		
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			He says what?
		
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			He says that I don't hold my own
		
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			nafs to be blameless in this matter.
		
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			Why? Because the nafs by its very nature
		
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			is
		
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			is commanded to that which is evil. It
		
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			always commands that which is evil except for
		
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			the one that Allah has mercy on. Meaning,
		
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			Allah had mercy on me. That's why I'm
		
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			not guilty.
		
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			Otherwise, I could have been guilty.
		
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			I could have been every one of us
		
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			could have been don't ever it's very important.
		
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			Right? This is all part of our and
		
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			and it has to do with our spirituality
		
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			as well.
		
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			Anyone could have been guilty.
		
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			That's why it's a hadith of that nobody
		
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			will
		
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			will mock or jeer or look down on
		
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			a sinner because of the sin that that
		
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			person commits
		
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			except for Allah will test that person with
		
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			the same sin before he dies.
		
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			Why? Because all of us are commanded to
		
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			know the lesson that it could have been
		
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			us that did it. It could have been
		
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			us.
		
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			It's were it not for the father and
		
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			the grace of Allah, it could have been
		
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			us. That's what we're supposed to get out
		
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			of it rather than, oh, look how wonderful
		
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			we are and how horrible these people. It
		
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			could have been us. If the roles were
		
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			reversed, it could have been us.
		
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			It could have been us except for the
		
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			Rahma and the mercy of Allah.
		
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			So the so when a person hears this,
		
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			that whoever Allah allows to go go astray,
		
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			that person, he allows them to go astray
		
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			through their justice.
		
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			Instead of crying about the jahannam that you
		
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			think Jim is going to, even though you
		
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			don't know, and you were not given the
		
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			right to to even make that decision, even
		
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			if it were true.
		
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			Instead of crying over Jim's supposed,
		
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			you should cry because your that you think
		
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			you're going to is not secure.
		
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			It's not guaranteed.
		
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			You should cry for your own self. You
		
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			should cry for your own. You should cry
		
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			for that jahannam that you ascribed to Jim
		
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			that might be yours. This it comes to
		
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			the hadith of the prophet
		
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			protect all of us. That a person who
		
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			dies on iman,
		
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			Allah
		
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			will show him his the angels will show
		
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			that person in the grave, a window to
		
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			the hellfire, and show them this is the
		
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			place Allah had created for you in Jahannam.
		
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			But because you did good in this life,
		
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			Allah ta'ala has traded in its place, a
		
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			place in Jannah.
		
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			But a person should always keep that in
		
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			mind. There's a place created for every single
		
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			one of us. It's not just for Jim.
		
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			For every single one of us, we are
		
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			praying salat in the masjid and reading and
		
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			giving zakat and all of these wonderful things.
		
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			And we don't eat pork and all of
		
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			these great things. There's a place created for
		
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			every single one of us. And by Allah's
		
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			if he wishes to, he can send each
		
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			and every one of us to him. And
		
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			we should always invoke Allah by by his
		
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			by his grace, you Allah, even if we
		
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			deserve to go there. Allah, from your grace,
		
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			protect us from it because you're the one
		
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			who can. Nobody can do it other than
		
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			you. So we ask from your father. And
		
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			Allah, if somebody asks, you have a good
		
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			opinion, Allah, whoever asks him in sincerity Allah
		
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			doesn't leave anybody
		
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			empty handed.
		
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			And Allah guides whoever he wishes,
		
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			and he will
		
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			he will give them Tofik. Right? You've heard
		
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			the word Tofik as well?
		
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			Right? Remember
		
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			and are like 2 sister terms.
		
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			Is
		
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			when Allah allows you to walk into the
		
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			hole.
		
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			You can't blame him for it. It's your
		
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			own fault.
		
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			Right?
		
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			But that's what is. He wasn't he he
		
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			he decided, I I don't wanna be there
		
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			for this person. I don't wanna be there
		
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			to stop them or save them.
		
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			Is the flip side. It's the other way
		
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			around.
		
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			Is what? Is you wanna do something good.
		
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			You wanna do something good, and Allah wants
		
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			you to do it.
		
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			You know, it's like a little kid A
		
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			little kid wants to do something. You know,
		
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			wants to,
		
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			you know, say a kid you know, it's
		
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			time for salat. You know, children
		
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			oftentimes like to read salat with their parents,
		
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			like small kids. You know?
		
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			And so, like, it's time for salat,
		
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			and you get out your your prayer rug
		
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			and you lay it down. And there's another
		
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			prayer rug and the kid wants to reach
		
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			for it, you know, but his hand won't
		
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			reach.
		
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			You know? So you take the pick the
		
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			kid up and then, you know, his hand
		
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			could reach and he pulls it out, and
		
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			the kid lays his own prayer rod next
		
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			to yours and he prays with you. That's
		
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			what is.
		
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			Right? Is that you and I, we reach
		
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			for something, but our hand isn't reaching there.
		
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			So Allah picks you up and says, okay.
		
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			Get it done.
		
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			All of our good deeds are like that.
		
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			There's so many good deeds, so many people
		
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			would love to do.
		
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			I know, brother Salam, if Allah gave him
		
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			a $1,000,000,000,
		
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			he would spend all of it in the
		
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			path of Allah ta'ala. Right? But you don't
		
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			have it yet, do you? So sometimes Allah
		
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			gave it to us, sometimes doesn't give it
		
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			to us. So Sure. 1,000. $91,000 short.
		
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			Uh-huh? $91,000
		
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			Right? So, but there are so many things
		
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			also that that he he you know that
		
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			he he wants to do. He loves to
		
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			do and Allah gave him to do it.
		
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			So many things you and I want to
		
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			do and love to do. Allah gave us
		
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			to do it. How many people are here
		
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			right now
		
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			listening to the
		
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			the the the reminder of the deen of
		
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			Allah and
		
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			how many people are at home watching television.
		
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			From amongst the Muslims, it's the majority. Maybe
		
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			this is not even 1% of the community,
		
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			and maybe the Muslim community is not even
		
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			1% of Rockford.
		
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			Right? How many people are at their homes
		
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			not not right now, not hearing the remembrance
		
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			of Allah in his Rasool Allahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam. This is toffee.
		
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			I gave you an extra special
		
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			help that other people didn't receive.
		
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			You know? And that you keep asking Allah
		
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			from his. You keep asking Allah from his
		
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			one day he'll make you do something
		
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			that that people marvel. How did that person,
		
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			how is that person able to do what
		
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			they were able to do? It was all
		
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			from the of Allah.
		
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			And if the if the if the
		
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			of Allah
		
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			happens by what? If it happens by
		
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			uh-uh Allah's justice. The of
		
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			Allah happens by his by his grace.
		
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			His grace. Grace meaning what? That he gave
		
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			you and he gave me the thing that
		
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			we didn't deserve. The thing we did nothing
		
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			to earn. There's nothing compelling him to give
		
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			it to us. But he gives it to
		
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			us because he's Allah.
		
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			It's less of a statement of how pious
		
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			and righteous we are. And more of a
		
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			statement of how how perfect
		
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			and glorious Allah is. That's what he says,
		
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			right? It's like an expression, right? The root
		
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			Sabaha means to swim.
		
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			Means to swim.
		
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			Right? And the Arabs used to used to
		
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			fear the ocean. They're not a they're not
		
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			a seafaring people until Islam.
		
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			Before Islam, they weren't a seafaring people.
		
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			Saidna Saidna Muawiyah radiallahu and who was commissioned
		
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			by
		
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			to build the 1st navy of the Muslims.
		
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			They had to hire Greeks to build the
		
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			ships for them
		
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			and to teach them how to
		
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			run the crews and things like that. Obviously,
		
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			later on, the Muslims develop a very high
		
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			maritime tradition.
		
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			There's a time when the Mediterranean Sea, the
		
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			Europeans used to post that this is the
		
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			Roman lake, and there was a time when
		
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			the Ottoman Imperial Fleet was so so feared
		
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			in the in the Mediterranean Ocean
		
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			that the combined fleets of Genoa and Venice,
		
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			they had standing orders never to engage the
		
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			Muslims in battle because it's just a good
		
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			way of wasting your ships.
		
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			They would just flee. They would have outposts.
		
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			They would see where their ships they would
		
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			just flee from battle. That's all.
		
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			Right? But the thing is that the was
		
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			something, said
		
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			the for permission to build a fleet.
		
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			Said Naomar asked his senior Sahaba what their
		
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			opinion was
		
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			about this. He asked, has anyone gone on
		
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			a ship before on a long voyage? Said,
		
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			no, Abdul Abin Mus'
		
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			He said, yes. I went on a ship
		
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			once. There was a storm. It was horrible.
		
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			We were stranded in the ocean like worms
		
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			on a piece a plank of wood. We
		
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			don't know when we're gonna sink and we're
		
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			all gonna die. Said the Hamer said, forget
		
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			it. I'm not going to make any believer
		
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			uh-uh
		
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			mount a ship and do anything like that.
		
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			Said now said now as man
		
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			who was more open minded.
		
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			He didn't use to try out new things.
		
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			Right? If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
		
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			There's a lot of Hikma in that. Sayidna
		
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			Umar was more willing to try to
		
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			to to, trust his young and talented commanders,
		
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			and so he trusted Said no
		
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			says, okay, son. You wanna build the ship?
		
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			Build the ships. Go ahead and build them.
		
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			But one thing I'll say is that anyone
		
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			who goes on any of those ships,
		
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			I won't force them. You have to ask
		
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			them if they wanna go or if they
		
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			don't. If somebody doesn't wanna stay on the
		
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			ship, he considered like a that they would
		
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			make a person, go on the ship because
		
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			of the dangers that they felt from it.
		
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			Why? Because Arabs had an aversion to the
		
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			sea. So
		
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			when he says, right, meaning, it means like
		
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			Allah is like unattainably
		
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			far far away.
		
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			He's not like you and he's not like
		
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			me.
		
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			He's unattainably far away. If someone were to
		
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			say, oh, look. You're in Alaska. There's Russia.
		
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			Swim there. It doesn't work that way.
		
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			It doesn't work that way. You cannot swim
		
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			like that.
		
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			Maybe someone does still sing their their praises
		
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			in song for, like, centuries.
		
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			Normal people cannot do stuff like that. So
		
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			the when we say that's who Allah is.
		
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			So when you ask Allah for his father,
		
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			when you ask Allah for his father, don't
		
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			ask because of who you are.
		
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			Don't ask because who who I
		
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			am. Ask because who he is.
		
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			Because if we go through our record,
		
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			if we add, we're gonna end up in
		
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			the department.
		
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			You ask because who you are. If we
		
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			ask because who we are, it's not gonna
		
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			work out. But if we ask him because
		
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			of who he is, he is.
		
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			He's the one who describes himself that his
		
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			grace is is magnificent.
		
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			It's huge. It's amazing. It's beyond your
		
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			ability to appreciate and beyond my ability to
		
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			appreciate.
		
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			So ask from his father. Don't ask because
		
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			how wonderful we are. Whoever receives that
		
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			will allow them to do what a normal
		
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			person is not able to do in their
		
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			lifetime
		
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			in terms of goodness and righteousness
		
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			and and and in terms of benefiting themselves
		
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			and others in this world and the hereafter.
		
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			Every person,
		
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			it will be made
		
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			will be facilitated
		
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			by Allah's facilitation
		
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			to that which Allah
		
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			knew regarding that person's fate.
		
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			In the past and based on what Allah
		
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			wishes for that person
		
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			from or from Saeed.
		
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			If that person is going to be happy
		
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			or if that person is going to be
		
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			wretched.
		
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			And happiness is not happy as in, like,
		
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			you know, Pharrell Williams and I'm dancing like
		
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			a moron
		
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			on a YouTube video.
		
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			Happy is the one who is happy forever.
		
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			You know, some people you see some people
		
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			are very serious about their deen in this
		
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			world. You see them praying all the time,
		
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			maybe never a smile on their face, always
		
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			reading Quran,
		
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			never engaging in chitchat.
		
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			Obviously, to be serious all the time is
		
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			not the sunnah, but this is something that
		
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			overcomes certain people because the deen is something
		
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			very serious. It overcomes them. You cannot blame
		
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			every person for not being perfectly like the
		
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			prophet
		
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			all the time. But everyone knows somebody who's
		
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			so serious about deen. They're just very serious
		
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			people. You'll see them.
		
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			They'll be dancing like the people dance in
		
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			this world. You'll see them. You'll be surprised
		
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			to say, you? You're so serious. The dunya.
		
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			How come you're dancing like a like a
		
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			teenager?
		
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			Your music and wine and all of these
		
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			things. It looks
		
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			strange. Where's your beard?
		
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			You're wearing all these beautiful clothes. What happened
		
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			to you?
		
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			Say, listen.
		
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			That time that time is done. That time
		
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			is gone.
		
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			This time, Allah made for us to enjoy.
		
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			Maybe other people will go to Jannah also,
		
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			but they won't enjoy as much as those
		
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			people will enjoy.
		
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			Those people, they'll be like normal Jannah people,
		
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			then they'll be the super guys who are,
		
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			like, party. That's it. You know, like in
		
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			this world, some people party harder than others.
		
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			You know? I like to show up on
		
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			time, and I like to be the last
		
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			person who leaves. I like to bring things.
		
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			If someone brings something to eat or drink,
		
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			I'll eat it and drink it, and it
		
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			shows.
		
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			I won't say no to anybody because I
		
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			like to party hard.
		
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			Some people, you invite them to a party.
		
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			You know? They'll take a 100 excuses to
		
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			stay home. Oh, I gotta review for this.
		
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			I have to study. Listen, man. Don't worry.
		
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			Until I went to Madras, I never studied
		
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			for anything.
		
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			I used to have, for the time, not
		
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			even go to class. I just take the
		
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			exams, and I'm done. I don't care about
		
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			that. Right? You know, I have to go
		
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			to work tomorrow. Don't worry. You'll wake up.
		
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			You know? 6 hours of sleep, 4 hours.
		
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			You'll make it. Don't worry. You know? Some
		
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			people are like that. Right? You'll see those
		
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			people over there. The those people. Right? The
		
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			the one Allah so that's the happy one
		
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			is the one who's happy like that forever.
		
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			Not the one who's happy over here like
		
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			that. And the wretched one is the one
		
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			protect
		
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			us. The one who's wretched in the what
		
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			are we going to do if Allah writes
		
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			us amongst them?
		
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			A
		
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			person will be asked after a minute in
		
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			the fire.
		
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			Did you have any any good? Was there
		
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			any good or any enjoyment you had in
		
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			this world? They'll say, yeah, Allah, we never
		
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			enjoyed anything in our life ever. Nothing nothing
		
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			good ever happened to us. People spend 1,000,000,000
		
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			of dollars partying.
		
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			Right? 1,000,000,000 of dollars or types of wealth
		
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			you and I cannot even imagine.
		
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			And people like us, simple people like us,
		
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			small amount of money, make us happy. So,
		
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			oh, look how nice the car is, how
		
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			nice the house is. There are people who
		
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			have destroyed the wealth of nations,
		
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			the wealth of entire nations. What happens?
		
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			Dies. They found out that person has 1,000,000,000
		
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			of dollars in the, you know, in their
		
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			accounts stashed away. A $1,000,000,000 is a lot
		
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			of money.
		
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			Who can eat, you know, how many you
		
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			live for a 100 years?
		
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			If you live for a 100 years, that
		
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			means you have to spend how many you
		
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			have to spend? You have to spend,
		
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			a $10,000,000
		
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			every year.
		
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			Right? If you have $10,000,000
		
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			every year, how many how many dollars do
		
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			you have to spend every day? You know,
		
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			you have to you have to literally, you
		
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			have to spend, like,
		
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			$100,000 a day.
		
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			Who can eat a
		
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			$100,000 worth of food? Find the most expensive
		
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			food in the world. Who can eat a
		
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			$100,000? Nobody can do it. Who can live
		
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			in a $100,000
		
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			worth of house every day? You build a
		
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			new house and then you can't do it.
		
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			It's impossible. It doesn't you know? So after
		
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			after a certain so people destroyed so much.
		
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			Those people enjoyed so much, never got caught,
		
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			never no revolution, no Arab Spring or Ajam
		
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			Spring or anything.
		
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			Irish Spring, nothing.
		
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			They got away scot free in this world.
		
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			Right? Those people, they're gonna be asked, well,
		
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			did you ever enjoy anything? I said, no.
		
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			Yeah. Oh, yeah.
		
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			I never enjoyed anything ever. I never knew
		
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			enjoyment.
		
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			In my existence, I never knew enjoyment. That's
		
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			the wretched that we're talking about. Those people,
		
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			Allah
		
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			knew who they were from the the beginning,
		
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			and
		
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			Allah made it easy for them to every
		
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			one of them to go to the slot
		
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			that they were assigned by Allah. Again, like
		
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			we said before,
		
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			you know, the knowledge of Allah having control
		
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			over all of these things.
		
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			It's simply there so that you and I
		
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			can ask Allah, you Allah, You're the one
		
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			who's in control of all of this. You
		
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			Allah, please don't make me from amongst that
		
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			you wrote to be the wretched ones.
		
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			Please don't make me amongst those who you
		
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			wrote to be the wretched ones. The rest
		
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			of it, trying to jump into the system
		
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			and deprogram it and understand why Allah did
		
00:37:41 --> 00:37:42
			everything he did or how he did everything
		
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			he did. You and I are never going
		
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			to be able to understand it, and there's
		
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			no point in it other than trying to,
		
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			confuse ourselves.
		
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			It's an exercise in madness.
		
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			Allah is too exalted
		
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			that anything should ever happen in his dominion
		
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			that he doesn't wish to happen.
		
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			Right? So this is something that we
		
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			that we say what? We say that this
		
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			is beyond our definition of Allah,
		
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			that anything should happen in this world that
		
00:38:19 --> 00:38:20
			he didn't want to happen.
		
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			There's
		
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			but but it doesn't make a lot of
		
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			sadder in the sense that it happened and
		
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			he didn't want it to happen.
		
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			Do you understand what I'm saying? If someone
		
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			takes a teacher gives an exam
		
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			and a student gets questions wrong on it.
		
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			Right? It's not that the it's it's it
		
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			doesn't you know, the teacher will fail the
		
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			student.
		
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			Right? Allah
		
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			so the teacher is not it doesn't mean
		
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			that the the teacher is,
		
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			what you call somehow
		
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			in a dilemma
		
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			that what the student wrote just because they
		
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			wrote it, it becomes right somehow.
		
00:39:03 --> 00:39:05
			No. The teacher knew that the student may
		
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			have even known that the student is gonna
		
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			fail, and the teacher allowed the student to
		
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			fail.
		
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			And even though the the student writing the
		
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			wrong answer is not something the teacher wants
		
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			in the sense that, like, if the teacher
		
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			were asked, you know, do you want this
		
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			kid to get get it wrong? No. It
		
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			would be better if the kid got it
		
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			right. I would prefer that.
		
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			But if if the teacher were afraid of
		
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			students getting things wrong, then he wouldn't have
		
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			administered the exam at
		
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			all. Allah, there's certain deeds that he's pleased
		
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			with in the sense that they conform with
		
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			what what he what what
		
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			standard he established as being good.
		
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			But somebody doing something bad, there's no one
		
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			who's gonna be able to do something bad
		
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			against his will. He's and
		
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			that happened, and god was helpless to change,
		
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			or god was this and that happened, and
		
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			God was helpless to
		
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			change, or God was grieved that somebody did
		
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			this, that, and the other thing. We don't
		
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			believe that. They're Christians. I mean, the the
		
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			thing is that one of the reasons people
		
00:40:02 --> 00:40:02
			become atheists,
		
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			one of the reasons that people become atheists
		
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			Muslims have atheism problem. Why?
		
00:40:07 --> 00:40:10
			Because culturally, we're dead. So culturally, we started
		
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			to
		
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			imitate the,
		
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			civilization of the Europeans
		
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			and of the Americans.
		
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			So their problems, we make them into our
		
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			problems,
		
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			but they're not really our problems.
		
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			One of the reasons that they have a
		
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			hard time believing in god is because they
		
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			don't have they have the idea that god
		
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			is just like
		
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			a a superhuman,
		
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			but they don't have idea of Allah being
		
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			Allah truly in control like we do.
		
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			Right? What do you read? You read in
		
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			the Bible. Right? It's one of the last
		
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			words
		
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			that they
		
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			they they attributed to say Naysa alayhis
		
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			salam. Right? Say,
		
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			Allah Allah, why did you leave me behind?
		
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			Why did you leave me behind?
		
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			Right?
		
00:40:52 --> 00:40:55
			Right? So what? That Jesus is, like, expressing
		
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			displeasure with his own
		
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			Qadr.
		
00:41:00 --> 00:41:01
			He regrets his own
		
00:41:02 --> 00:41:05
			it doesn't it doesn't like, 7 different ways,
		
00:41:05 --> 00:41:06
			it makes no sense.
		
00:41:07 --> 00:41:09
			But the way that the one way in
		
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			particular we want to highlight with regards to
		
00:41:11 --> 00:41:14
			this point of is what? Is nothing happens
		
00:41:14 --> 00:41:17
			against Allah's Allah's will or that, you know,
		
00:41:17 --> 00:41:19
			oh, it happened and Allah was very grieved
		
00:41:19 --> 00:41:20
			by it or, you know,
		
00:41:21 --> 00:41:23
			it kind of took him by surprise or
		
00:41:23 --> 00:41:24
			took him by storm.
		
00:41:30 --> 00:41:32
			He's too exalted that anything should happen in
		
00:41:32 --> 00:41:35
			his dominion that that he doesn't like or
		
00:41:35 --> 00:41:36
			he doesn't allow to happen.
		
00:41:37 --> 00:41:39
			Right? He may not like it in the
		
00:41:39 --> 00:41:41
			sense that he doesn't he he doesn't accept
		
00:41:41 --> 00:41:44
			or he doesn't accept as a standard for
		
00:41:44 --> 00:41:45
			his creation
		
00:41:45 --> 00:41:47
			that they do certain bad things.
		
00:41:47 --> 00:41:49
			But the fact that they did those bad
		
00:41:49 --> 00:41:51
			things, he knew they were gonna do them
		
00:41:51 --> 00:41:53
			and he allowed them to do them so
		
00:41:53 --> 00:41:55
			that they can be a means for them,
		
00:41:55 --> 00:41:57
			for those for those creations to reach a
		
00:41:57 --> 00:42:00
			a destination that they were going to from
		
00:42:00 --> 00:42:00
			before.
		
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			This is important why Stuff is gonna happen
		
00:42:03 --> 00:42:05
			in your life, and it's gonna happen in
		
00:42:05 --> 00:42:06
			my life
		
00:42:06 --> 00:42:07
			that we're not happy with.
		
00:42:08 --> 00:42:10
			But we have to constantly remind ourselves, this
		
00:42:10 --> 00:42:12
			is something Allah allowed it to happen.
		
00:42:13 --> 00:42:14
			Allah allowed it to happen,
		
00:42:15 --> 00:42:16
			and there's some reassurance
		
00:42:17 --> 00:42:19
			that should be there for all of us,
		
00:42:19 --> 00:42:21
			that if he allowed it to happen and
		
00:42:21 --> 00:42:23
			if we believe, then there's some benefit in
		
00:42:23 --> 00:42:25
			it for us. There may not even be
		
00:42:25 --> 00:42:26
			benefit in it for the one who it
		
00:42:26 --> 00:42:27
			happened to.
		
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			Someone died on Kufr. There may be no
		
00:42:30 --> 00:42:32
			benefit in it for them, but there's benefit
		
00:42:32 --> 00:42:34
			in it for us. Maybe we love that
		
00:42:34 --> 00:42:35
			person,
		
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			but we showed patience.
		
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			This is very important. This exact thing happened
		
00:42:40 --> 00:42:41
			to the messenger of Allah
		
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			It comes in the hadith,
		
00:42:45 --> 00:42:47
			narrated by Imam Hakim
		
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			that the day of the Fatha. The Prophet
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said
		
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			He tells the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam he
		
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			brings his father to the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam. His father's name
		
00:43:01 --> 00:43:02
			is Abu Khohafa.
		
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			He brings Abu Khohafa to the messenger of
		
00:43:04 --> 00:43:06
			Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. The messenger of
		
00:43:06 --> 00:43:08
			The messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
00:43:08 --> 00:43:09
			says,
		
00:43:09 --> 00:43:11
			Aba Bakr, why did you make this old
		
00:43:11 --> 00:43:13
			man, a sheikh of Quresh, come all the
		
00:43:13 --> 00:43:14
			way to us? If you had told us,
		
00:43:14 --> 00:43:15
			we would have gone to him.
		
00:43:18 --> 00:43:20
			Says no. He needed the the reward for,
		
00:43:20 --> 00:43:23
			the reward for coming to you. His father
		
00:43:23 --> 00:43:23
			was blind,
		
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			but he's he's he needed the reward of
		
00:43:26 --> 00:43:28
			going through the difficulty to come to you.
		
00:43:28 --> 00:43:30
			And so he came, and he put the
		
00:43:30 --> 00:43:31
			he took Shahada,
		
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			and then he took the oath of allegiance.
		
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			He put the 2 hand his the two
		
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			hands of his blind old aged father into
		
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			the hands of the messenger of Allah
		
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			And he and when he was putting his
		
00:43:43 --> 00:43:44
			hands into his hands
		
00:43:45 --> 00:43:47
			to take the bay'at, to take the oath
		
00:43:47 --> 00:43:49
			of allegiance from him, Said Abu
		
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			Bakr started to
		
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			weep,
		
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			and the prophet
		
00:43:54 --> 00:43:56
			asked him, yeah, Abu Bakr, why are you
		
00:43:56 --> 00:43:56
			weeping?
		
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			He says, because I would have rather this
		
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			day
		
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			put the hands of your uncle into your
		
00:44:01 --> 00:44:02
			hands.
		
00:44:04 --> 00:44:06
			He says, why? He says, because I know
		
00:44:06 --> 00:44:07
			that it would have made you happier
		
00:44:08 --> 00:44:08
			than
		
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			than than putting these hands into your hands.
		
00:44:12 --> 00:44:13
			And the Prophet
		
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			wept also, and he says, you're right.
		
00:44:17 --> 00:44:19
			So this happened, you know, people think that
		
00:44:19 --> 00:44:20
			this is like
		
00:44:20 --> 00:44:23
			a, like unique, but these things happened. They
		
00:44:23 --> 00:44:25
			happened to the messenger of Allah
		
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			But look at that. It's a beneficial it's
		
00:44:27 --> 00:44:29
			a benefit for him as well. Why?
		
00:44:30 --> 00:44:32
			Because he shows his to Allah
		
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			that, yeah, Allah, whatever you tell whatever you
		
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			decree, I'm happy with it. And whatever you,
		
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			whatever you decree, I'm happy with it, and
		
00:44:41 --> 00:44:43
			I'm patient with it. And whatever you choose,
		
00:44:43 --> 00:44:45
			I'm happier with what you choose than I
		
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			am with what I choose.
		
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			There's a statement that's attributed to saying Allah
		
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			knows best. But they say that when I
		
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			they say that he says when I make
		
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			du'a for something and it happens, I become
		
00:44:57 --> 00:44:58
			happier.
		
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			And when I make dua for something and
		
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			it doesn't have I become happy. And when
		
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			I make dua for something and it doesn't
		
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			happen, I become happier. Because my du'a is
		
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			my choice, and my du'a not happening is
		
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			Allah's choice,
		
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			right? And it's a it's a means for
		
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			a person to grow in rank with Allah
		
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			and grow in proximity and closeness to Allah
		
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			and grow in their imam. There's and all
		
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			of these things.
		
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			So that's why we say that that you
		
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			we must remind ourselves that
		
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			Allah by his very definition of who he
		
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			is.
		
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			He is he is the one that he
		
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			is too exalted and too high that there
		
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			could be a situation that happens in the
		
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			creation
		
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			except for that which he wishes to happen.
		
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			And so we remember that that's his choice.
		
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			And we see try to see the khair
		
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			and the good in it or at least
		
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			have patience with it because at least from
		
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			a theoretical level, we know that there's good
		
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			in it. That also there's a lot of
		
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			benefit in it, inshallah, for us.
		
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			Well,
		
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			I think this is a good place to
		
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			stop. Are there any questions?